I have been trying all day to access different SRA files on the GEO database but keep being met with '404' kind of error- stating that the site is down. I have tried on two separate computers and get the same result... taking the following path as an example:
ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sra-instant/reads/ByExp/sra/SRX/SRX232/SRX2327412
The above path only exists as far as ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sra-instant/reads/ByStudy/sra/
i.e. there is no 'SRX' directory....
Is it normal for all SRA files on the GEO database to be (temporarily?) inaccessible? If so how long does this tend to last?
SRX
is not a valid identifier prefix as far as I can see. TheX
is most probably a stand-in foreXperiment
until an actualP
orR
or whatever gets assigned, I think.